The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-03-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

which these claims can be presented to
July 1 next.
| IT is said that a tract OF 900 acres
of pine land in Northern Wisconsin,
for which $4,000 was recently paid by
q Chicago firm, is now worth over
$4,000 on account OF decision to
build the $500" road through the
section in which the tract lies. Ten
years ago nobody was willing to pay
81 200 for it.
| Four dollars a ton is paid FOR the
sulphur mined at Mineral Point. 1t
is being shipped to Tennessee by the
carload.
WHILE practicing with revolvers at
Galesville, William Rhodes was acci-
dentally shot, the ball entering his leg
and striking bone.
| Mr.. RAINIER, a school teacher at Et-
trick, Trempealeau County, was lately
assaulted by some of his scholars and
seriously injured. The affair is being
investigated.
In the trial OF Mrs. Sarah TyIrell at
Lancaster, for the murder OF her hus-
band, the Jury brought in a verdict Of
manslaughter in the third degree.
AT Lancaster, on the 25th, E. Gra-
ham split his thumb off with horse
power circular saw. He will probably
lose his hand.
A 7-YEAR-oLD girl named Emma
Awe, while stealing a ride on a bob
sleigh, in Milwaukee, on the 25th, fell
off in such a manner as to berun over
by the rear portion OF the vehicle.
She received injuries from which she
died the same night.
AN infant child OF Daniel Westigood,
of Fairchild, died from the effects OF
chewing wad OF green paper.
JOHN HANSON, an employe at one Of
the Valley lumber camps on the west
for OF the Chippewa, was instantly
killed by O.. falling tree. The remains
OF the deceased were brought to his
home in Eau Claire for interment.
THE gross earnings OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad for the
third week in February were $685.
600, an increase of $4,000 as COM
pared with the same week in 1886.
A LARGE number of railroad men
are at work on the docks for the Chi
cago, Burlington & Northern new sum-
mer bridge across the river at Winona.
A WAY freight from Duluth on the
Omaha, was thrown from the track
near Eau Claire. G. w. Proctor, the
conductor, two brakemen and two
passengers were injured. The accident
was caused by broken rail.
THE trial OF Sarah w. Tyrrell, for
the murder of her husband last June,
has been commenced at the criminal
term of the Grant County court, held
at Lancaster. They were an old
couple and had quarreled a good deal.
| He owned the property and wanted to
drive her away. He assaulted her.
She proved to be too stout for him
and dubbed him to death. He was g.
well-known money-lender for many
years.
| IT is now proposed that $4,000 be
added to the $4,000 already contrib
uted for a soldiers monument at Oar.
| lington. OF the sum in hand, $4,000
was donated by Henry 8. Alagoon.
THE earnings of the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore q Western road for the
| third week in February were $37, ,616,
an increase OF $13, $50 over the cor
| responding week last year.
VIM. SCHROEDER, a farmer in Line.
stone, fifteen miles east OF Eau Claire,
fell into well and received injuries
that resulted in his death soon after
he was rescued.
| THE suit OF Thomas 4 Sons against
| the Milwaukee Harvester Company,
at Lancaster, was decided in favor of
| la = - -
OF the Milwaukee company's attach
ment OF 1920 worth OF machinery that
| Lomas had left at Fennimore. The
Thomas company, OF Springfield, o.,
| claimed that the attached machinery
belonged to them and had only been
assigned to Lomas as their agent, and
| they sued for possession Of it. The
| Milwaukee company has so far seized
81, 4,406 worth OF property which they
| claim belongs to Lomas.
CATTLE are suffering in the neighbor-
| hood OF Rockland from q scarcity of
feed" Farmers are anxlously await
ing the advent OF spring.
THE young lady found dead on the
railway track at Bangor was Mise
Selma Bodmer. She had visited the
| u.
run down. From the position OF the
body, it seemed likely that she had
| fallen in crossing q cu!vert and been
unable to recover herself in time to
escape the train.
LoRENZ VOGEL, locksmith, 60
years old, OF 169 Cornell Street, had q
| quarrel with Frederika, his wife, two
weeks ago, and she went to abide,
temporarily, i'll the house OF her friend,
Mrs John II. Raap. Mrs. Vogel re-
turned home at 3 O'Clock yesterday
| afternoon, and found her husband
dead, lying on the floor with his throat
cut from ear to ear, and q butcher
knife at his side. He had apparently
been dead week. Vogel had made
several previous attempts to kill him.
self, and, aside from bis domestic
quarrel, no cause is known for his act.
ABOUT 9 O'Clock yesterday morning
| the body of a man was found in a
ditch near the corner OF Crawford Ave
nue. and Twenty Street. The
body was frozen and partly covered
with water. 1t was taken to tbs
morgue and there identified as that of
Fred. Sharkey, who has been missing
from home TOR two or three weeks.
Deceased lived near the corner Of
Twelfth Street and Crawford Avenue
and left wife and two grown children.
A NEW sningle mill, a Textbook Per-
kins, guaranteed to cut 100000 shin
giles day, has just been purchased by
Mcdonald Bros., of La Crosse. This
is the largest and most complete mill
in the state.
EDWARD GIEsE, wealthy business
man OF the Eleventh Ward, Milwau.
kee, committed suicide by hanging, on
the 22d He was 80 years old and
leaves a family.
AT about 4 O'Clock, op the after
noon OF the 22d, the east and west
bound freight trains on the Chicago
Burlington & Northern Road came IL
collision at Trempealeau. The west